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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Allow use of two factor authentication using smart cards for authentication for ODBC

Security requirements make us move to use two factor authentication when accessing Db2 for z/OS. We do have everything set up for the server side by using AT-TLS ServerWithClientAuth configuration for our Db2 for z/OS systems. We can also make Db2...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 3 Planned for future release

Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Content store consistency checker to clean groups

The content store consistency checker properly identifies users and groups in the content store that no longer exist in Active Directory. During cleanup, it will delete orphaned users in content store, but not groups. Please do groups too. Painful...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Push up of local predicat...

In PMR 89848.077.724 you see an example that the DB2 optimizer is not able to push out local predicates that are specified in the correlated subquery to the parent query block. The predicates AND "AVADMIN"."TLORM_DBFE"."MANDANT" = ? AND "AVADMIN"....
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

JOB Section required SNMP

Hi Team, We are having JOB section which runs few scripts, but when any failure for it we are looking to have SNMP enabled . We require SNMP to be enabled as we want any JOB Failure to act within SLA without any miss.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Integrated Pacemaker

Hi Team, For all databases greater than V11.5.7.0 we are planning to start deploying DB2 Integrated Pacemaker cluster setup which requires monitoring such as : If cluser is not ready to move Standby node. If VIP is not up. If Cluster is in Maintai...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Outstanding Archive Log Generation

Hi Team, We have alert in DMC to check if any failed archivals to send an alert. Can we have alert if any outstanding logs more than 10-20 are not archived to send an alert which can help us to track how many logs are not archived and why its missed.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Log Generation Rate Monitoring

Hi Team, We are seeing huge log generation on daily basis. Can we get the Log generation rate monitoring in report section so we can try to schedule on daily basis to send E-mail notification to review for Critical databases the flow coming in.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Backup Monitoring and alerting is not available

Hi Team, In DMC we are not able to check the backup status via console or alert is not enabled if backup is not available more than 3 days for Non-PROD and more than one day for PROD. At present we running via UDA to check the backup status as fea...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Centralized Path in DMC server to run Jobs or UDA

HI Team, We are running few scripts via Jobs or UDA, but if any script to be run we need to place script in all database servers where we need to run it which is huge manual process to do it. Kindly help to get the Centralized path enabled in DMC ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration